Ayọ̀ Olúrántí (formerly Ogúnrántí) has
featured in the music scenes in Nigeria, UK & USA in the last thirty-five
years primarily as a composer and as well as a conductor, organist, music
scholar and theorist. His compositions have been performed in Africa, Asia,
Europe, North America, Russia and South America. He has also given recitals on
historic and celebrity organs in different parts of the world.

Ayọ̀ has
successfully designed and directed both liturgical and pentecostal church music
programs. He was previously the Composer-In-Residence and Associate Organist at
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, where he also conducted the
Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra. He is a member of Baf​rik, Brazil and a
founding composer-member of Alia​ Musica, Pittsburgh. Ayo, currently an
independent scholar, was previously a post-doctoral research and teaching
fellow at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.

In his intercultural approach to music
composition he experiments with the fusion of elements that define Western Art
music, Yorùbá and Igbo musics of Nigeria. Having studied pre-colonial art
Yorùbá musical forms such as the Yorùbá folk opera with Akin Eúbà, he proceeded
to Ìrágbìjí, Ọ̀sun State, Nigeria to study and record dùndún music - a Yorùbá
instrumental genre. He applies the theoretical principles and instrumentation
of dùndún music in his compositions. On a broader facet, Ayọ̀, who believes in
both the traditional and the contemporary ‘experimental’ approaches to music
within a postmodernist aesthetic, researches various African musical processes
and resources for use within his compositional language.

Olúrántí, who holds the General
Musicianship Diploma from the Ecumenical School of Music, Ibadan, has won
several awards and scholarships: Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (USA),
St. Michael’s Organ scholarship (UK), Tafawa Balewa Scholarship (UK), Heather
Award (for best interpretation of Bach’s keyboard work – Southampton),
Michael James Music Trust Award (UK), Sidney Perry Award (UK), Brereton
Memorial Fund grants (UK) etc. He was the winner of the 2009 Donald Sutherland
Endowment Fund Composition Competition (USA). Living Faith Connections, RCCG,
London (2010), the Ibadan Anglican Diocese (2002), Christ Apostolic Church,
Yaba (2000), and the Blood of Jesus Apostolic Church, Ibadan (1998), have all
presented Ayo with awards in recognition of his contribution to the growth of church
music.

With a background in the fields of Industrial
& Production Engineering as well as Computer Hardware Technology,
Olúrántí is the Lead Consultant for Altus Klass, a digital and
pipe organ consulting firm. He also handles tonal design and organ voicing
for Sanus Domino, the providers of Sanus digital organ.

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